Brent J. Schmidt

Brent J. Schmidt teaches at Brigham Young University-Idaho in the Religious Education Department. He previously taught in the BYU-I Humanities and Philosophy Department and at Weber State University (ancient history), BYU Salt Lake Center (New Testament), and Salt Lake Commnity College (world civilizations). He earned degrees in history and classics from the University of Utah and a PhD in classics from the University of Colorado—Boulder. He is interested in Patristics, ancient and modern Utopian communities, Greco-Roman history, and New Testament Studies. He received the Hugh Nibley Fellowship (2003-2007) from the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. He is a BYU Studies Research Fellow (2011-present). He enjoys travelling and leading tours to the Mediterranean region, gardening, and studying ancient and modern languages. He presented at BYU Education Week in 2015 on the topic of grace (charis) in the ancient world and its use in the scriptures. He and his wife, Judith, are the parents of one son.